James Randi @ Caltech - My Out Of Body Experience

James Randi lecture excerpt from a 2 hour lecture at Caltech in 1992.

Randi talks about an experience he had which was very similar to many of the Out of Body Experiences that people claim to be supernational/paranormal.

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[joemoe23]

Look up the work of Dr. Thomas campbell. It will all make sense. He's uploaded countless hours of free lectures on his page TWCJR44. Have an open mind, unlike Mr Randi.

[GuitarSongCoverDude]

@feuchster

Look, you are confusing the supernatural term 'spirit' with the rational term 'spirituality', which I used loosely to describe his type of experience. Am I saying that he definatly had more of a spiritual experience rather than a simple dream? No, I am not. That was just my guess. But you are acting as if any kind of spirituality was a thing contradictory to all sound reason and probability, which it isn't.

[feuchster]

@GuitarSongCoverDude You would have to give evidence of this "spirit" thing for your whole comment to be taken seriously at all. Secondly, I have very very detailed dreams, just like millions of other people, on a not so rare basis.

[GuitarSongCoverDude]

@feuchster Yeah I am not saying he experienced anything supernatural, but if I had to guess, he didn't just have a dream, because the vividness and memory of details he described are rare in dreams. He also specifically remembered the static TV and white noise is often used to bring people into a meditative state to create spiritual experiences just like the one he mentioned. Spirituality does not contradict rationality btw., Sam Harris believes this to be true as well.

[feuchster]

@GuitarSongCoverDude He had a dream.

[GuitarSongCoverDude]

He probably went into some sort of meditative or half asleep state, because of the static TV. White noise is part of something called binaural beats. It is used in all kinds of areas to create spiritual experiences.

[evpinvestigations]

Do you ever reply to a question? Annie:)

[evpinvestigations]

Dear James, I love you sense of humor and the way you tell a story. Now I have one for you I was undergoing a colonoscopy suddenly I am looking at myself from above. I hear the doctor and his team joking around.

[evpinvestigations]

Next I am back in the recovery room and I mention this to my doctor. I tell him what the jokes were about. Wow, he says that’s right. Now, did I have a dream or hallucination and if so why did I recall what they we doing and saying. Perhaps I was awake enough to hear what was going on and incorporate it into my dream, is this possible. Annie:)

[mdo686]

Back in grade 7 or 8, I remember walking in to class with a freind in the morning and we walked to the back of the class to hang our jackets up. As I was hanging mine up, my freind asked me why I takeing my jacket up because it was time for recess! I was stunned....I didn`t remember anything from the last two hours! nothing! (My geuss is I missed a spelling lesson that morning hehe sigh) Other than that, nothing strange noted in this life.